Parish Magazine

Chieveley, Winterbourne and Oare Parish Magazine celebrated its 80th birthday in 2005 folowing its founding in 1925. This was marked by an extra supplement containing a distillation of Magazine ‘snippets' and articles from the first 35 years (illustrated left). Further supplements of history and the remaining 45 years held in the archives at Reading have followed.

Editor Jan Willcocks , Treasurer Joan Leefe, and Advertising (yearly) Jane Gould can all be contacted at parishmag@chieveley.info .

Price 30p, available by annual subscription or retail from the Church, Pharmacy and Village Shop. It is distributed by a band of volunteers. 

If you want to submit an article it should arrive with the Editor before and not later than 15th of the preceeding month. If you want the Magazine delivered to your door in the Parish, please contact the Editor; she will point you in the right direction.

Features in a sample Issue

• From our Priest in Charge
• Parish Diary
• Pre-School Group Report
• Age Concern, Berkshire
• Photograph Competition
• Plant and Produce Sale
• Hunger Lunches
• Church Choir
• Bric-a-Brac at the Fete
• Gardening Club
• Birder's Report
• Artists' Open Studios
• Supporting Children's Learning
• Chieveley W.I.
• The Downland Youth Network
• Chieveley Directory
• Advertising of local services.

The Parish Magazine is gratefully acknowledged as a source of useful numbers and events by this site.